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Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts (IGNITE): Assay Development and Therapeutic Agent Identification

Funds developing an assay and screening to identify a therapeutic agent, ahead of characterisation and efficacy testing on it.

Before any therapeutic agent can be tested for efficacy, someone has to build the assay that can find it and screen enough candidates to identify one worth testing.

This half of the IGNITE pair funds that earlier stage: developing in vitro, ex vivo or in vivo assays and running screening efforts to identify and characterise potential therapeutic agents — small molecules or biologics — for disorde

Biotech

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.

Last verified: 27 Aug 2026Source: www.grants.gov